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Baitball Blogger

(46,775 posts)
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 03:04 PM Aug 2021

Second hand smoke. How is it that we can make health policy regarding second hand smoke and

restrict smokers from smoking in public places, but we're stopped from enforcing policies regarding Covid when it is devastating our hospital resources and kills more efficiently and quicker?

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Second hand smoke. How is it that we can make health policy regarding second hand smoke and (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Aug 2021 OP
With today's Republican party, if we didn't already have restrictions on smoking, I think they would Earth-shine Aug 2021 #1
This group of unpatriotic opportunists have been testing the limits of "conventional wisdom" for Baitball Blogger Aug 2021 #2
Been saying the same thing. AmBlue Aug 2021 #3
It's sad, but it will be the death toll that will force people to wake up. Baitball Blogger Aug 2021 #4
 

Earth-shine

(4,044 posts)
1. With today's Republican party, if we didn't already have restrictions on smoking, I think they would
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 03:07 PM
Aug 2021

resist them, much like they do with meaningful masking-and-vaccination policy.

Nowadays, they can and will politicize anything.

Baitball Blogger

(46,775 posts)
2. This group of unpatriotic opportunists have been testing the limits of "conventional wisdom" for
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 03:11 PM
Aug 2021

sometime. Let's just hope our side is wiser and are ready to bring the legal arguments to the courtroom.

AmBlue

(3,119 posts)
3. Been saying the same thing.
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 03:27 PM
Aug 2021

ALSO... in the 90s during the HIV epidemic, if someone knew they were HIV-positive and had unprotected sex, as I recall there were criminal penalties. COVID should be no different. No one has a right to infect others with a potentially life-threatening virus.

Baitball Blogger

(46,775 posts)
4. It's sad, but it will be the death toll that will force people to wake up.
Sun Aug 15, 2021, 03:32 PM
Aug 2021

They think they're immune and they will discover they are not. And they will see how the Regeneron will reach some, but not all.

People have to die, before they connect cause and effect.

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